You wouldn’t think the country was hovering close to recession by the record number of businessmen queuing to pay fortunes to take an MBA. But when a first degree at an ordinary university costs £27,000, perhaps paying twice that to double your salary makes sense.
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Reading through this short blog online is one thing: imagine ploughing through the 272 pages of BP’s annual report on a computer screen. In a victory for common sense and against technological overload, the corporate regulator has abandoned its plan to allow companies to rip up paper communication and rely on the web.
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Nevermind whether more girls should take A-level physics, why aren’t they sitting business subjects? If girls don’t do economics or commerce at A-level they’re unlikely to read it at university, less likely to go into business, and are hardly going to be invited into the boardroom.
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If government can step in to rescue a bank, shouldn’t it intervene to ensure a care-homes business such as Southern Cross remains afloat? It’s not as simple as that.
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Flu killed 602 people in Britain last winter. That’s 602 personal tragedies, but to put that in context, it is an extra couple of deaths a day during the season in a country where 2,000 die every day of other causes.
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Some 97 per cent of the mammoth UK television audience that watched the royal wedding chose not to see William marry Kate on Sky News. Maybe the Murdoch channel has a republican bias but why is this minority news source being allowed to sway the whole British Sky Broadcasting plc (LON:BSY) takeover?
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Rupert Murdoch woke up the media sector by treating it as a business rather than a vanity project. But filling the boardroom with his family is not businesslike.
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Lord Davies’ proposals to recruit more women directors risks dividing Britain’s boardrooms. Most women directors are non-executive: most executives are male. Davies will create a split across the board table between full-time men and part-time women.
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Steve Jobs is a giant in the business world – and that’s why it is important Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) has a succession plan for when he goes. And the effect of his latest departure explains why so few other companies allow themselves to be headed by giants.
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Now that the BBC cannot select its presenters on the basis of age, can The Sun’s Page Three girls go on until they are 75? Employment tribunals must be told that no-one has the right to a job; companies must be allowed to choose who they employ.
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